The Daily Stoic

“power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”

We’re not trying to ace tests or impress teachers. We are reading and studying to live, to be good human beings—always and forever.

Everyone had a job—a specific duty. Even people who did bad things—they were doing their job of being evil because evil is a part of life.

He was much more interested in hearing what the other person had to say than making sure he was heard or—as most of us insist upon—winning the argument.

we were not acting consciously or deliberately but instead by forces we did not bother to evaluate.

“We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”

WHY DO YOU NEED TO IMPRESS THESE PEOPLE AGAIN?

Don’t try to make it up on the fly. Have a plan.

The good things in life cost what they cost. The unnecessary things are not worth it at any price

So don’t stop at Stoicism, but explore the forces that drive and make Stoicism possible.